Does Trump's rise prove the tea party was about race?

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Hillary Clinton is White. So was George McGovern, who won more counties in Tennessee (to name a state WJC won and won a majority of counties in) than she did. Barack Obama was Black. He also won more counties in Tennessee than HRC2016 did, both in 2008 (during the height of the PUMA backlash) and 2012.

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-Indeed.

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From my experience, most Tea Partiers just hated blacks who were democrats

They love Herman Cain type blacks

-Indeed. Look at Ben Carson's vote patterns in the Georgia primary. Very rural, not Black-belt focused. Same type of people who voted for Trump.

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The Tea Party is fundamentally based around the ideas of the Jacksonian Democrats, which were developed before race was even a partisan issue.

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I think the fact that the TEA PARTY DOMINATED GOP nominated first ROMNEY and then TRUMP proves . . . that Jonathon Chait should stay away from analyzing Republican politics.

-The Tea Party first nominated Santorum and Gingrich, not Romney.

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From my experience, most Tea Partiers just hated blacks who were democrats

They love Herman Cain type blacks

-Indeed. Look at Ben Carson's vote patterns in the Georgia primary. Very rural, not Black-belt focused. Same type of people who voted for Trump.

Arguing that you can't be racist because you voted for a black man to represent your political cause is like arguing that you can't be racist because you hired black house-servants rear your kids.

-Both are legitimate lines of evidence for the claim.

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Considering that the supposed "libertarians" in the Tea Bagger (lol) movement willingly support a toddler with fascist tendencies these days, it's likely the only reason there was so much vitriol in 2009 was probably Obama's race.

The only reason some libertarians voted for Trump was because they thought he would end the neocon foreign policy of his predecessors.

More hawkish on Iran, Cuba, China. Bullsh**t.

Only dovish with Putin and his lackey Assad. Wonder why

-Compare the runner-up for the Republican nomination, lyin' Ted Cruz, on these issues. No wonder I voted Trump.

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Guys, if you're arguing that the only way racially-motivated voting manifests itself is whether you vote for a black or a white guy then you're being incredibly obtuse. The fact is that Trump ran a campaign founded and centered on white racial resentment. Romney did not, McCain did not.

-Interesting, then, that Trump lost so many of Romney's White voters in the Deep South and gained so many Obama voters in states that went for Lincoln.